Rachel Hart
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2,663 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Aug
Rachel Hart’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that we've really already handed down.
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Proving you can drink less so often is a sneaky way to defend yourself in the courtroom of your own mind.
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When your mind is really good at saying, listen, if you can't do this, something is fundamentally wrong with you.
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The external goal is about lessening how much or how often you drink, but the internal goal that is just as important for so many people, and again, often unspoken, is trying to prove something about who you think you are and using alcohol as the proxy to do this.
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And that's really the bigger problem because when you're trying to use how much you do or don't drink as a proxy for your identity.
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The chase will never end.
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Alcohol has simply become the thing that your brain has latched onto in an attempt to defend against the fears you have about your identity.
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But alcohol can't answer identity questions.
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It can't answer questions about who you are.
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It's not capable of doing that.
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It's not capable of proving whether you're normal or unbroken.
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It just doesn't have that power.
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But I do think it's really important to understand why so many of us, myself included, can spend years caught in this trap of believing.
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Believing that alcohol can do this for us, believing that alcohol can answer questions about our identity that it simply is not capable of doing.
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It's so common, and yet when you kind of slow down and look at this, kind of strange and arbitrary.
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Like, why are we trying to use beer to prove something about who we are, but not wheat?
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Why are we trying to use wine?
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But not grapes?
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How is it that we turn to bourbon to prove something about ourselves, but not corn?
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How is it that alcohol has become a referendum on who we are and how we see ourselves?
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